With the region's high-paying tech industry going strong, deep-pocketed workers continue to flock to the area helping to push the median home price to a whopping $545,000.

CoreLogic expects home prices to climbanother 9.3% by the end of September. Yet this hot market is expected to eventually cool. Over the next five years, CoreLogic expects home price growth to slow to 4.5% annually.

January 23 2014 02:54 PM ET

Source: CoreLogic Case-Shiller Forecasts are for the 12 months ending September, 2014. Rankings are for metro areas with populations of one million or more. In addition to its own data, CoreLogic Case-Shiller compiled its results using data from the National Association of Realtors, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Moody's Analytics and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.